Cool Tapes
It's too late to raise a fuss or organize a sit-in: the much-loved Listening Center at the HUB is closing for good. It's the one with the extremely limited music collection, all on tapes. Remember? Yeah, the Listening Center! I know, right? Iiii knoooow! No more Beatles or Supertramp cassette tapes for you. The good news? Much more Beatles and Supertramp cassette tapes for me! WHAT A HAUL! I mean, just look at those titles!
Man, how blog are those photos? I just knew it would end up looking like that. Yeesh.
The highlights, of course, are the Titanic and Batman Forever soundtracks, as well as something called "Juice Newton." All for a grand total of 31 cents (special shocked HUB employee discount: buy 31 of the tapes after sorting through an unseemly mail bin and a half, get a tape free!) A hispanic-accented coworker to the girl dealing me the tapes was reading off the list of tapes with the air of someone who's never heard of Men at Work while telling her friend on the phone that the friend had big boobs, according to some diagram the hispanic-accented coworker was holding. Then, up walked a lady from "the old country" (so I call her due to her eastern European accent) who was shocked at the price of each tape being "just only one cents" (those were actually my words, not hers, but I had expected her to say them, so I accidentally introduced them as such).
Cool Tapes
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There must have been some magic in those old cool tapes I found. For when I placed them in my bag, The Dude had come to town!
Jeff "the Dude" Dowd, UW alumnus (I use the term loosely, as he probably didn't graduate) and inspiration of the man/myth/legend of the Coen brothers' film, was on campus to get combat political apathy. We learned from him that the film depicts the Dude as he might of been in the 70's, after his fervent political activism when he just sort of "slacked it out," and when "yeah, at some point, yeah we were probably drinking White Russians." But The Dude as you know him - on film - is mostly a Coen brother's creation, just sparked by The Dude's nickname (which came to fruition sometime around 6th grade) and the fact that he helped them throw a premier for one of their earlier movies at a sweet Santa Monica bowling alley.
His balladeer friend, Jimmy Page (no "Stairway"), who used to sing political songs on the HUB lawn before the "libraries encroached on it" was there to strum a few diddleys, including "Petroleum Bonaparte" (first two words: Hey George!), a song about Jesus on a crucifix learning to laugh, and a WTO victory anthem.
Finals? Don't bring it up, man. You're being very un-Dude.
Man, how blog are those photos? I just knew it would end up looking like that. Yeesh.
The highlights, of course, are the Titanic and Batman Forever soundtracks, as well as something called "Juice Newton." All for a grand total of 31 cents (special shocked HUB employee discount: buy 31 of the tapes after sorting through an unseemly mail bin and a half, get a tape free!) A hispanic-accented coworker to the girl dealing me the tapes was reading off the list of tapes with the air of someone who's never heard of Men at Work while telling her friend on the phone that the friend had big boobs, according to some diagram the hispanic-accented coworker was holding. Then, up walked a lady from "the old country" (so I call her due to her eastern European accent) who was shocked at the price of each tape being "just only one cents" (those were actually my words, not hers, but I had expected her to say them, so I accidentally introduced them as such).
Cool Tapes
- - -
There must have been some magic in those old cool tapes I found. For when I placed them in my bag, The Dude had come to town!
Jeff "the Dude" Dowd, UW alumnus (I use the term loosely, as he probably didn't graduate) and inspiration of the man/myth/legend of the Coen brothers' film, was on campus to get combat political apathy. We learned from him that the film depicts the Dude as he might of been in the 70's, after his fervent political activism when he just sort of "slacked it out," and when "yeah, at some point, yeah we were probably drinking White Russians." But The Dude as you know him - on film - is mostly a Coen brother's creation, just sparked by The Dude's nickname (which came to fruition sometime around 6th grade) and the fact that he helped them throw a premier for one of their earlier movies at a sweet Santa Monica bowling alley.
His balladeer friend, Jimmy Page (no "Stairway"), who used to sing political songs on the HUB lawn before the "libraries encroached on it" was there to strum a few diddleys, including "Petroleum Bonaparte" (first two words: Hey George!), a song about Jesus on a crucifix learning to laugh, and a WTO victory anthem.
Finals? Don't bring it up, man. You're being very un-Dude.
Labels: Cool Tapes, Homestar Runner, politics, The Big Lebowski, The Dude, UW
posted by Jon at 12:05 AM
1 Comments:
The Dude's actually supposed to be pretty darn intelligent, and is well-known in the film world for producing films and planning events. I believe he gave a talk on that the day after the political one. I'm gonna have to bet you on the fact that he actually did graduate... (Of course you actually saw him, I didn't.)
-Tara
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